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Arnold Palmer walked into a gala event 20 years ago in Orlando. In front of 600 guests at the Hyatt Regency and countless skeptics worldwide, The King teed himself up to become an all-time golf joke. "I think The Golf Channel is a channel, a medium of communications, that will someday have a tremendous influence on relationships around the world," he said. All that over a fashioned-challenged sport played by fewer than 10 percent of Americans? Palmer then took a limo to the channel's new studio off Sand Lake Road and flipped the switch. On Jan. 17, 1995, his world-altering vision flickered to life. After 7,310 days, 175,000 hours and a million televised tips on how...

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Arnold Palmer walked into a gala event 20 years ago in Orlando. In front of 600 guests at the Hyatt Regency and countless skeptics worldwide, The King teed himself up to become an all-time golf joke.
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Jack Nicklaus' final putt during British Open competition — a 13-foot birdie on No. 18 at the Old Course at St. Andrews — is frozen in time for Tom Lehman.
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Mark O'Meara has never minded being overshadowed. If he did, he probably wouldn't have lived next to Tiger Woods for more than a decade in Orlando.
It's tough enough to escape that shadow on a golf course. Imagine having it come over and ask to borrow...

Legendary golfer Nick Faldo recently purchased a home on the Winter Park Chain of Lakes from NASCAR Foundation Vice President Jennifer France Bates.A former top-ranked player and now a golf commentator on TV, Faldo purchased the five-bedroom, two-story...

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You were assured the United States men's soccer team was advancing into the knockout stage of the World Cup in Brazil. A victory against Portugal assured, with only a few seconds of extra time left Sunday until the red, white and blue...

Statistical oddity this week at Bay Hill Club & Lodge: None of the top three players in the world rankings are in the field. Since the rankings had their inception 25 years ago, that's never happened before. Never. Nick Faldo carried the tradition, as did

Gary Player has been coming to the Masters since 1957, and he still has the same impulse whenever his car approaches Magnolia Lane. Please stop, driver. “Every time I got here, I've said it – “Stop,” and I would walk,” Player reca

Rory McIlroy, meet Greg Norman. Not that the two need a formal introduction. Young Rors and the Shark have crossed paths a few times before. Their names have been linked a lot in the past month, too, in the wake of McIlroy’s Masters meltdown that proved the bi

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Bid finalists to design the venue for golf’s return to the Olympics in 2016 are to be named today in Rio de Janeiro, with such high-wattage teams as Jack Nicklaus/Annika Sorenstam and Greg Norman/Lorena Ochoa expected to head the list. For intrigue, though – a

Raymond Floyd never found all that much excitement in hitting a driver – or in teaching it. Figuring out how to play shots around the green is what held his attention as a kid, and the short game still brings out his enthusiasm. “Scoring, to me, is

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To no one's surprise, Tiger Woods' comeback round delivered the biggest golf audience in cable history to ESPN. The numbers couldn't be nearly as good for today's round – Woods putted out at No. 18 about five minutes before ESPN came on. So today was a g

Fifty years after first laying eyes on St. Andrews, Arnold Palmer now possesses what has to be considered the second-highest honor a golfer can achieve in the Auld Grey Toon. After the Claret Jug, of course. Honorary Doctor of Laws has a Â nice ring to it

So it turns out Seve Ballesteros didn't miss out on as much as he thought he would when doctors advised him not to travel to the British Open. Wet, blustery weather wiped out plans for today's four-hole exhibition of former champions on the Old Course, as Roya

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Tiger Woods has three more weeks to enjoy the view from the No. 1 world ranking. That's according to the number-crunchers who administer the world golf rankings, who say Woods' last day at the top will be Oct. 31 before handing it over to England's Lee Westwoo

The rise of Europe's young talent this year has come as no surprise to Greg Norman. If anything, the Hall of Famer thinks it's right on time. Norman, of course, was as the forefront of the last wave of international golfers to rule the game – the pre-Tig

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